Shiny pokemon

Intro

This page is concerning shiny pokemon. Information on these rare creatures is scattered about all over the web. I thought that it might be a good idea to have this information located in one place for our users.

General Information

Shiny Pokemon are Pokemon with a different color scheme then normal ones. They are extremely rare and commonly sought after because of their rarity. Shiny Pokemon have a different color scheme and are different from other shiny Pokemon. A shiny Drifloon would not have the same colors as a shiny Pikachu, for example. A shiny Drifloon is yellow where it would normally be purple, and blue where it would normally be. A shiny pikachu is red instead of yellow.

Location

There is no location, throughout any of the games, that has a higher rate of encountering shiny Pokemon. This is a commonly asked question among those seeking shiny Pokemon; however, a place like this does not exist.

The chances are of finding a shiny Pokemon are consistent and small (the exact chance is 1/8192).

Increasing the Odds

Through use of the Pokeradar, a trainer can dramatically improve his odds of encountering a shiny Pokemon. This is done by attempting to encounter the same species of Pokemon consecutively, a process often referred to as "chaining." With every Pokemon encountered, the chance of finding a shiny Pokemon rises.

Using a Poketch app and the Repel item, trainers can extend the length of their "chain" to forty or more consecutive Pokemon.

How exactly do I chain pokemon?

Well I mentioned earlier that you need a pokeradar and a certain poketch app. to track your chaining. I described the app in the paragraph above so there is no need to describe it again. I forget what it is called so sorry. Chaining is actually fairly simple, you just cant mess it up by encountering another pokemon. I will show it in steps.

• obtain the pokeradar from dawn
  • obtain the certain poketch app I believe from the guy in jubilife who gives them
    • go to the any store and buy as many repels/super repels/max repels as possible!
      • Got to the route where your favorite pokemon is usually located
        • Use the repel
          • Use the pokeradar and go to any grass patch that moved/flashed
            • Make sure to note whether the patch you went into just moved or whether or not it flashed
              • if it isn't a shiny kill that pokemon so that the pokeradar will stay active
                • Then when the pokeradar goes again after the battle go into the same type of patch that you went into last time and make sure it is the farthest possible away because then the chances of you getting the same pokemon you did last time and continuing the chain are almost guaranteed.
                  • Keep doing this until you reach 40 after that if you still cant find a shiny you either keep the chain going (it wont increase odds) or restart it.
                    • Make sure to keep using repels as soon as the other one wears off otherwise a random wild pokemon could mess up your whole chain

types of patches

basic ones-basic ones are the ones that just move

Flashing ones-they flash for not even a second

Shiny ones!-these are the patches that flash except for a longer time these are the ones you are looking for, so for your first patch I'd try to make sure that it is a flashing one so that you dont need to get mixed up between the other patches and you could stumble upon a shiny one easier because flashers and shinies are hard to distinguish apart.

What about legendaries?

Well, legendaries, unfortunately have no way of ever using chaining to increase the odds of shinyness. So then you are going to have to soft reset until it is shiny or cheat. So save the game before enounterment of legendary, then talk to it, battle, if not shiny soft reset your game and do it till shiny.

What is soft reset?

Soft reset is resetting your game so you go back to your last saving point. Of course that is what turning on and off does but this is quicker.

How do you do soft reset?

L+R+select+start or L+R+start+select. I'm not sure which one it is.

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Sources:

Youtube

Yahoo answers

Own experience

Gamefaqs